HPI 63-year-old male surfer in Northern California was found floating in shore break by fellow surfers. He was wearing a full wetsuit and last seen riding a 5-foot wave, perhaps 5 minutes before the incident. When other surfers arrived to assist, the victim was not breathing spontaneously, had limp muscle tone and was blue. He […]
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History An 18-year-old male was surfing a thruster shortboard in 5 foot waves. He fell on takeoff, was tumbled, and his board recoiled striking him in the right eye, causing a significant right upper eyelid laceration. He was transferred from a walk-in clinic to our tertiary-care trauma center for ophthalmology consultation. He states his vision […]
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A 29-year-old female was seen in the emergency department with a chief complaint of laceration. Earlier in the day while surfing she sustained a laceration from the fin of her surfboard and was subsequently dragged in the water. Bystanders helped her out of the ocean, at which point she reported significant hemorrhage from her left […]
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Chief Complaint: A 57 year-old female who had been body boarding presented with a chief complaint of neck pain, weakness and pain in her arms and hands. History of Present Illness: The patient had been bodyboarding in 2-3 foot shorebreak over a cobblestone bottom when she was pitched forward by a wave and hit the […]
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Just like its sometimes fun to ride an old board that hasn’t seen the light of day for a few years, here at SM headquarters we’ll occasionally dust off an old issue of the Journal and revisit an article that particularly strikes our fancy. ‘Course cutting-edge medicine changes a bit over time, so we may […]
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What is nastier than a maggot wriggling around on a piece of meat? Read on and you’ll find out…. History of Present Illness A 32 year old otherwise healthy female presents to the Emergency Department with a painful red lump on just above her left knee that she has had for about a month. Initially […]
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Case Presentation I didn’t start surfing until my early 20’s, but once the bug hit, it hit hard and I began plying the chilly waters of New England year-round. By the age of 40, I noticed that the earpiece of my stethoscope was bumping up against something in my right ear canal. When I stuck […]
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